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Christ Church Garden

A green oasis

Christ Church Garden is a green oasis off Blackfriars Road, with beds and borders of shrubs and flowers and holly hedging, all under a lush canopy of London plane and lime trees. In summer, the space is busy with local residents, office workers and church visitors, and contributes to the `green chain’ of other spaces along the Thames border including nearby Hatfields Green, and BOST’s Waterloo Millennium Green.

BOST facilitates an active steering group, and works with Southwark Council to ensure the park is well cared for. We work to involve local volunteers and community groups in planting and caring for the lovely circular flower bed and the wildlife garden border.

We aim to preserve the peace and sanctity of the green space. As well as undertaking careful planning, events and gardening, this means working with local developers to ensure that any new buildings preserve this special place for all to enjoy.

In 1900 the churchyard was formally opened as a public garden, with funding from The Metropolitan Public Gardens Association. It is now officially a Southwark park, under an agreement with church authorities. A church has stood on the site since 1671, the current building being the third church, dating from 1959.

The garden was redesigned in 2000 under the Bankside Open Spaces Programme (BOST’s predecessor) with local residents, church representatives, Southwark Council, the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association and businesses all working with Marcus Beale Architects. BOST and our Steering Group went on to design further improvements, in particular the lovely wildlife garden border which now edges the park to the north.